Precious Plastic (Eindhoven, Netherlands) has launched phase three of its master plan to help people fight plastic waste worldwide by providing open source machines, tools, knowledge and ...

In the future, microorganisms could help return hard-to-recycle plastics to the recycling loop. Nick Wierckx, a molecular ...

European equipment maker says its new polyolefin recycling and regrind system can handle a wide variety of plastic scrap infeed materials. The Intarema 2325 T-VEplus RegrindPro, which the company says ...

Organization has worked with more than 150 plastic recycling-related startups, with more aspirants in the pipeline. The Alliance to End Plastic Waste and its staff have identified the lack of proper ...

Since China’s 2018 ban on the import of most plastic waste for recycling, Japan has faced a major challenge. Prior to the ban, the country was shipping nearly half of its roughly 1.5 million tonnes of ...

Bales of shredded plastic material are stacked in a warehouse with two people in hard hats talking in front of them as a third person drives a forklift carrying a bale. Bales of used plastic at ...

The use of plastic has skyrocketed over the past decade. Recent statistics reveal that in 2021, each person in the European Union (EU) generated an average of 36 kg of plastic packaging waste.

Two people stand in a laboratory in front of a closed fume hood; each is wearing goggles, a lab coat, and gloves and holds a box of nitrile rubber gloves. Evan Bailey and Caroline Gilmer were inspired ...

A project in the Philippines, supported by the IAEA’s NUTEC Plastics initiative, aims to reduce the amount of plastic waste the country generates by using radiation to strengthen the discarded plastic ...

As a kid, I went door to door collecting cans to earn some pocket change. Today, I still take pride in recycling. I slice cardboard boxes down to size each Sunday, and make sure every viable plastic ...

It's a familiar sight in Midwestern homes: a plastic bag full of plastic bags. For the first time, those bags can be recycled locally and put to good use by preventing plastic waste in landfills, ...